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COMPILED BY FRED ^\. LAMB 

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Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. 



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GENEALOGICAL SKETCH OF THE LAMB 

FAMILY. 



From the Book of Genealogical Records, compiled by the 
LATE Rev. Joseph A. Lamb, of Old Mystic, Connecticut, 
WHO died April 3, 1893, copied by his daughter, Miss 
Lucie A. Lamb, with extensive additions and correc- 
tions by Frank B. Lamb and Fred W. Lamb. 

Isaac Lamb bought land near the Mystic river in what was 
New London, Conn., about 1695 or 1696. In 1704 all of New 
London east of the River Thames was made Groton. He is be- 
lieved to have been the Isaac Lamb recorded as having been 
baptized and owned the covenant at Watertovvn, Mass., July 10, 
1687. There is a well-founded tradition that Isaac Lamb, with 
his father ( whose name is unknown but is believed to have been 
Daniel), came from England and settled first on a grant of land 
they had received at Haverhill, Mass., but they were finally 
driven away by the Indians, and Isaac went to New London, 
Conn., for safety. Isaac Lamb v/as said to have been a soldier 
in Cromwell's army. In 1714 he bought two hundred acres of 
land in Mystic, Conn., which has been the homestead ever 

since. He died in 1723. He married Elizabeth . 

They first joined the church at Norwich, Conn., but through 
some minor disbelief in orthodoxy, were excommunicated, and 
Isaac became one of the organizers of the first Baptist church in 
Connecticut, founded at Groton in 1705. Isaac Lamb was one 
of the two deacons first elected. 

first generation. 

Isaac Lamb and Elizabeth had the following chil- 
dren : 

1. Elizabeth, baptized November 24, 1695. 

2. Else, baptized June 19, 1698. 



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3. Freelove. 

4. Experience, married William Stark, Jr., April 13, 1710. 

5. Ann, married Samuel Branch, May 23, 1728. 

6. Jacob, baptized August 17, 1701, married Jerusha Wil- 
liams, February, 1725. 

7. Daniel, born 1703, married Zerviah Button, October 5, 
1727. 

8. Isaac, born 1705 in Mystic, married Lydia Richards, 
June 12, 1733, and had six children, two of whom were Baptist 
ministers. One son of his was named Daniel. 

9. Dorothy, married David Morgan, December 12, 1728. 

SECOND GENERATION. 

Jacob Lamb, son of Isaac, was baptized August 17, 1701, 
and married Jerusha Williams of Preston, Conn., in February, 
1725. He is said to have been the first to settle Lamb Town in 
Ledyard, Conn. Their children were : 

1. Amy. There is a tradition that Amy married a Thos. 
Lamb, son of Ebenezer, son of Thomas, son of John Lamb of 
another family. This Thomas whom she is believed to have 
married had a daughter Amy and also a son Thomas who was 
killed in the Fort Griswold Massacre, 1781, aged 19 years. 

2. Silas, married Eunice , and had a son Asa and a 

son Silas, Jr., born 1756 or 1762, and daughters Content and 
Bathsheba, Temperance, Pettis and Dorothy. This son Silas, 
Jr., married Jane and had the following children: 

I. Nathan, born 1789, died July 9, 1832. 

II. Ezekiel, born 1790, died December 8, 1836. 

III. Asa, born 1792, died August 12, 1840. 

IV. Joseph, born 1797, died November 9, 1842. 
v. Silas, born 1803, died January 6, 1838. 

VI. Charlotte. 

Silas, Jr., died January 6, 1845. ^^i^ brother Asa lived in 
New York State after the Revolution, and his sister Content mar- 
ried Roswell Wells, and his sister Bathsheba married a Perkins. 

3. Timothy, born 1733, married Mary Holdredge and 
died in 1807. 



THIRD GENERATION. 

Timothy Lamb, son of Jacob, was born in 1733, niarried 
Mary Holdredge April 20, 1766, and died in 1807. He was a 
soldier in the Old French and Indian War, serving in a company 
of militia under command of Capt. Joseph Morgan, which 
marched to the relief of Fort William Henry at the alarm of 
August, 1757. The company served fifteen days. His children 
were : 

1. Timothy, Jr., born September 28, 1767. 

2. William, born April 16, 1769. He married Anna 

and had the following children : 

I. William, had children, Mary, William, Sanford, 

George, Ardelia, Francis and Henry. 
II. Lydia, married Hallam Whiting and had seven 

children. 

HI. Washington, had child George. 

IV. Russell, had children, Elizabeth, Patience, Anna, 

Levi, Dennison, Milton, Edmond, Robert, Nelson, 

Erastus, Cortland, Elizabeth, Eraetsin, and Delia. 

V. Nathan, had children Amasa, Frank, Emeline and 

Edwin. 
VI. Nancy, married John Ayers and had ten children. 
VII. Jefferson, had children, Mary, Henry, Emeline, 

Eliza, Noyes, and Ellen. 
VIII. Polly, married Ichabod Chapman and had twelve 
children. 
IX. Hannah, married " Subal " Maynard and had eight 

children. 
X. Lavinia, married Levi Chapman and had twelve 
children. 

3. Mary, born April 10, 1771. 

4. Prudence, born September 11, 1772. 

5. Aaron, born January 18, 1774. 

6. Isaac, born April 11, 1775. 

7. Deborah, born March 7, 1776. 

8. Rufus, born April 9, 1778. 

9. John, born March 6, 1780. 
10. Sabra, born March 7, 1783. 



FOURTH GENERATION. 



Rufus Lamb, son of Timothy, son of Jacob, son of Isaac, 
was born April 9, 1778, married Polly Searles and had the fol- 
lowing children : 

Billings, born in New London, Conn. 

Rufus, Jr., born 1812, died in 1885. 

Rodman, born in Preston, Conn. 

Amos, born in Oxford and married Elvira Cheney. 

Albert, married Charlotte , and located in New 



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Prudence, married William Whipple and went West. 

Caroline, married Stephen Holdredge. 

Julia, married Lyman Austin. 

Lydia, married an Italian and removed to Italy. 

Frances, died at twelve years of age. 

FIFTH GENERATION. 



Rufus Lamb, Jr., son of Rufus, son of Timothy, son of Jacob, 
son of Isaac, was born in 181 2. He married at Southbridge, 
Mass., December 3, 1836, Sylvia Conant Lee, and died at Man- 
chester, N. H., January 25, 1885. She died at Fremont, N. H., 
May 12, 1900. They had children as follows : 

I. Frederick William, born at Webster, Mass., September- 
19, 1837, married December 7, 1865, at Leominster, Mass., 
Martha C. Howe. She died at Warren, Mass., December 21, 
1870. He was a member of the 7th Wisconsin Volunteers, Co. 
H, in the Civil War. He died September 8, 1897. When a 
young man he went West and was for a time located at Mt. Hope, 
Henry County, Missouri. The writer has in his possession all 
of the letters which he wrote home from there. A few extracts 
may prove interesting. 

"Just imagine that you see a large prairie, rather rolling 
but handsome, and bounded on one end with large groves of 
timber ; on one side in the distance the outlines of Other groves 
and then as far as the eye can reach, one wide extended plain 
without a tree except two or three that stand alone. Now 
imagine that you see a little log house on the prairie and to the 
east of it about one-fourth of a mile is a creek with a few trees 
which Ime its banks. Now look at the interior of the log house 
which is built of logs on the same plan as children build cob- 



houses, the cracks chinked up with mud. A large stone chim- 
ney stands at one end and an ample fireplace which takes as 
much wood to make one fire as you would burn all day in the 
east. One bedstead in the room, all the other beds being made 
up on the floor. There is one table, one bureau, a drygoods 
box for a cupboard, two splendid rifles hanging across the joist 
and a Colt's revolver hanging against the logs, then myself sit- 
ting in a rocking chair with my paper on my knees and you 
will see the way a log cabin looks. 

" Sometimes when I have nothing to do I go hunting. We 
have plenty of prairie chickens, ducks, turkeys, wild geese, 
squirrels, rabbits, and so on." 

From Bristol, Dane County, Wisconsin, he wrote as follows : 

" We set fire to some prairie which we wanted to plow and 
the fire got the start of us and ran over to the land that never 
was plowed ; we drove the team in front of it to stop it. The 
fire was so hot that it brought me on to my knees but I stuck to 
the plow handles and the horses dragged me out. We had to fight 
it about five hours ; we threw down several fences, and cut willow 
sticks and whipped it out. There were fourteen of us. It ran as 
fast as I could and the flames ran about twenty feet. We never 
could have stopped it if it had not come to land that was mown 
last year. It ran about a mile." 

2. Helen Frances, born at Grafton, Mass., September 22, 
1842, married George W. Nichols, August 16, i860, at South- 
bridge, Mass. i^e died May 5, 1897, at Fremont, N. H. 

3. Franklin Lee, born June 9, 1848. 

4. Jennie Stearns, born at Southbridge, Mass., April 17, 
1852, married William H. M6uld, June 22, 1887. 

SIXTH GENERATION. 

Franklin Lee Lamb, son of Rufus, Jr., son of Rufus, son of 
Timothy, son of Jacob, son of Isaac, was born at Southbridge, 
Mass., June 9, 1848, and married Josephine A. Savory, Novem- 
ber 15, 1 87 1, at Manchester, N. H., and has had the following 
children : 

1. Fred William, born at Manchester, N. H., January 22, 
1876. 

2. Sylvia Lee, born at Manchester, N. H., February 4, 
1883. 

3. Walter Franklin, born at Akron, Ohio, July 22, 1886, 
died at Manchester, N. H., March 16, 1S89. 



GENEALOGICAL SKETCH 

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LAMB FAMILY 



COMPILED BY FRED W. LAMB 

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